The Immaculate Perfection of F**king and Bleeding in the Gender Neutral Bathroom of an Upper-Middle Class High School

Written by:

D. Halpern

Artist/Creator(s) Identify As:

2SLGBTQIA+

Cast Size:
7

Roles For:

  • LGBTQ+: 7
  • Men: 4
  • Women: 2

Genre:

Comedy
Drama

Themes:

Coming of Age
Grief
Growing Up
Queer

Length:

120 min.

Year Written:

2020

Synopsis:

Immaculate Perfection… revolves around a group of high school seniors in 2016 over the course of their final year. These students spend their time smoking, crying, and touching each other in the gender neutral bathroom of their high school. During a welcome back party in September, Nat, a young transgender woman, conceives a baby despite being a virgin. At the same party, her nonbinary best friend, Alex, has an illicit encounter with Minnie, who as a child was quite religious and bullied Alex frequently. Since then Minnie turned away from religion, and found immense popularity within the school, as much of the student body relies on her for drugs and sexual contraband. While Nat comes to terms with her unwanted pregnancy and Alex and Minnie struggle with their feelings for each other despite their tumultuous past, two jocks, Jack and Jacques, navigate the power dynamics that begin to develop in their own one-sided relationship and search for bottomless pleasure. One student, Cody, who struggles with a porn addiction, is isolated within the school, and soon brings an artifact of violence into the bathroom. These students are watched over by Tory, a janitor who has lost the two loves of his life, and wants to save the students from the inevitability of hurt.

Characters:

JACQUES- A jock, openly gay, closeted homophobe, endlessly patient, high school senior (he/him)

JACK- Also a jock, loves sex, doesn’t see gender, young, dumb, full of cum, high school senior (he/him)

MINNIE- Deals whatever you need, grew out of that whole God phase, high school senior (she/her)

NAT- A virgin and pregnant, film is something like scripture to her, high school senior (she/her)

CODY- Nebbish little creep, probably definitely watches too much porn, high school senior (he/him)

TORY- Janitor, extremely protective of the students, grieving and has been for a long time (he/him)

ALEX- Loves everybody desperately, Sees the best in almost everybody, high school senior (they/them)

First Produced:

2022 BodyCube Arts Collective (Edmonton); 2024 High Performance Rodeo (Calgary)

Resources:

Play can be accessed by contacting the author at dhhalpern@hotmail.com